<!--
   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
   limitations under the License.
-->
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheets/style.css">
<title>EProperties Manual - Escaping Rules</title>
</head>

<body>
<h1><a name="introduction">Introduction</a></h1>
<p> [ <a href="#why">Why?</a> | <a href="#other">Other Extensions/Solutions</a> ] </p>



<p>The escaping rules for java.util.Properties are somewhat complex. They are
explained to some extent in the javadoc for the <a href="http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/Properties.html#load%28java.io.Reader%29">load()</a> method.

</p>

<h3>Escaping and Quoting in EProperties</h3>
<p>The following basic rules apply: 
   <li>Simple property values (Strings) can be quoted or non-quoted.</li>
   <li>If quoted, the only character that needs to be escaped is the double quote itself.</li>
   <li>For NON-quoted strings, single backslashes are simply dropped - for all characters. </li>
</p>

this is half baked.

</body>
</html>

